Thor Peak - October 29, 2010

These photos were taken by Kurt Wedberg. His photo album is at: http://tinyurl.com/24mg9wg They are displayed here via SmugMug's collect photos feature.

Thor Peak via The Stemwinder.

It's been a long time since we first talked about doing this climb together, but Kurt and I finally got is done on a somewhat blustery day. It was an outstanding climb, but I wasn't expecting it to be as hard as it turned out to be. There was a lot more 5th class climbing than what Secor's description leads you to believe. We headed down the SE Couloir and used a few of the alternate routes to get back to the Portal in what turned out to be about an eight hour day. Thanks Kurt for making this a really cool climb of Thor Peak. I'm sure you're glad to have it on your list of summits now.

I managed to drop my camera on the way from the Portal Store to my car. By the time I realized it and went to look for it, it was gone. Hard to believe considering how few people are up there at this time of year.